Link jewelry



R. ANDERSON.

LINK JEWELRY.

APPLICATION FILED Auc.5, 1919.

1,386,591. Patented Aug. 9,1921.

ROBERT ANDERSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LINK JEWELRY.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

Application filed August 5, 1919. Serial No. 315,428.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, RoBnR'r ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, resioing at the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Link Jewelry, of which the i'ollowing is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in jewelry and the same has for its object more particularly to provide an article comprising a series or links, such as a bracelet, chain, or similar article and which while having the appearance of a continuous, unbroken structure, is nevertheless flexible to a certain extent.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide an article of the character described comprising a plurality'of flexibly connected links or members which are so arranged that the exposed sides thereoi forming the parallel longitudinal sides of the complete article will be maintained in due alinement when the article aS a whole is in either its flat, or in its flexed or curved form. 7

Further, said invention has for its object to provide an article of the character de scribed which is simple in construction; composed of the smallest number of parts possible, and which may be easily assembled. I

Further said invention has for its object to provide an article of the character described comprising a series of links or members, and means wholly and rigidly secured to each of said links or members, and loosely embracing the adjoining link or member.

Other objects will in part be obvious and in part be pointed out hereinafter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in. the claims.

In the accompanying drawings showing an illustrative embodiment of my said invention,

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a bracelet constructed according to and embodying my said invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective view showing a single link or member;

Fig. 3 is a central, longitudinal section of a link or member, ready to receive the conncct ing members;

F g. 1 is a similar view showing one connecting member secured in position within said link or member;

Fig. 5 is a similar view showing two links or members, with one connecting member securing the same together, and the other ready to receive the next link or member, and

Fig. 6 is an inverted plan or bottom view or a plurality of llnks showing the successive steps followed in assembling the same.

In said drawings 10 designates a flexible bracelet comprising a series of links or members 11, each of which comprises a rectangular, hollow member or box having a top 12 provided with a central opening 13 to re ccive a jewel 14; side walls 15, and end walls 16 which are formed integrally with said side walls but of less height than said side walls. 7

Each end wall 16 is provided with two circular apertures 17, which register with each other and with similar apertures 17 provided in the end walls of the adjacent links or members.

18 denote a pair of flexible cylindrical pins, which are substantially co-extensive in length with the length of a link or member 11. Each pin 18 has one end disposed with in one of the apertures 17 in one end of a link or member 11 and rigidly secured thereto by soldering or other suitable means, and its other end free and adapted to be in serted into the adjoining link or member through the registering aperture in the opposing end wall thereof.

The free end 19 of each pin is thence curved rearwardly and downwardly over the upper edges of the opposing end walls of two adjoining links or members, and thence bent outwardly against the adjacent side wall of the link to which its first-mentioned end is secured, and its said free end finally soldered or otherwise rigidly secured to said side wall, as shown at Figs. 5 and 6.

In this connection it is to be noted that the pins 18 have their free ends 19 curved outwardly and against the inner sides of the side walls 15, and thereby insuring the main: taining of the outer side of the side walls 15 in due alinement particularly when the bracelet is bent or curved and its ends secured together. The angular arrangement or disposition of said pins 18, serves to maintain the links or members 11 properly alined during their movement. I g

It is to be noted that my invention while shown in connection with a bracelet, is nevertheless applicable to chains, and link jewelry of various forms.

'Having thus described my said inventlon what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A bracelet comprising a series of similarly-shaped links having conforming contacting walls, a plurality of apertures provided in one of the walls of each of said links, a plurality of pins each secured at one of its ends within the other wall of said links, and having their other ends passed through. the apertures in the wall'of the next adjoining link, and curved rearwardly and terminating within said first named link and separately secured thereto, substantially as specified.

2. A bracelet comprising a series of similarly-shaped links having a plurality of angular faces, apertures arranged in the opposite walls of each link, a plurality of pins, each having one end secured within the apcrtures in the wall of one link and its free end extending loosely through the aperture in the opposite end of the next adjoining link, and its extremity curved back and into said first-named link and separately secured thereto, substantially as specified.

3.1A bracelet comprising a series of hollow links having angular, contacting walls, and a plurality of apertures therein, pins each having one end secured within one of the apertures in the wall of one link and its projecting portion extending loosely through the registering aperture in the wall of the next adjoining link, and the end of said projecting portion curved rearwardly and into said first named link and secured to one of. the side walls of said first-named rality of registering apertures, a pair of fiexible pins each having one end rigidly secured within one of the apertures in one of said links and its other end extending loosely through the registering aperture in the adjacent wall of the next adjoining link, and curved rearwardly and downwardly into said first-named link and its extreme end secured to the side wall of said link, substantially as specified.

6. A bracelet comprising aiseries of rectangular, hollow links each having its oppositely arranged walls provided with a plurality of registering apertures, a pair of flexible pins substantially coextensive in length with a link; said pins each having 1 one end rigidly secured within the apertures in one end of: one of said links and its projecting portion extending through the registering aperture in the opposing wall of the next adjoining link and then curved rearwardly and downwardly into said firstnained link, and its end rigidly secured to the adjoining side wall of said link, substantially as specified. g r

Signed at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, thiseighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

7 ROBERT ANDERSON.

Witnesses: CONRAD A. DIETERIOH, J osnrn G. QUINN, r. 4 

